Posted on 04/01/2023 5:51:38 PM PDT by John Semmens
The California legislature’s Education Committee unanimously approved a bill (AB 599) that will prohibit schools from suspending or expelling students who are drunk, high, or in possession of illicit drugs or alcohol on school grounds. The bill will now go to the full Assembly for a vote.
Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego), sponsor of the legislation, said “the idea that students must be sober to receive the free education our public schools provide has not been proven to be scientifically valid. The imposition of standards used in previous generations on the new generation of students is simply wrong.”
Nora Lynn, associate director for the “Health of the Children Now” public policy organization, spoke in favor of AB 599, pointing out that “the disproportionate impacts of a punitive approach on youth of color exacerbates the evils done by our nation’s long history of racism.”
California Youth Empowerment Network (CAYEN) representative Danny Thirakul emphasized “the importance of using the youths’ lived experience as a guide for public policies. In many schools a substantial portion of the student body is high at any given moment. If this is held to be grounds for punishment, what should we do when the same thing can be said of those who make and enforce our laws? Isn’t it better to adjust to a new norm than to insist on punishments suited to a dying puritanical culture?”
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